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3rd November 2011
HSE Supports National Drug ConferenceDRUG INTERVENTIONS: What Works?
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3rd November 2011
Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week highlights Mayo’s plightDrug and Alcohol Awareness Week highlights Mayo’s plight, aims to tackle issue
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3rd November 2011
Addicts’ families can get supportPat Herlihy spent years sitting at the front window of his home or driving around the streets of Cork looking for his daughter.
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3rd November 2011
Minister Shatter launches review of voluntary code for sale and display of alcohol productsThe Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Mr Alan Shatter, T.D., today launched a review of the voluntary Code of Practice for the display and sale of alcohol in supermarkets, convenience stores and similar mixed trading outlets.
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2nd November 2011
Cabinet sanctions banning of 10 additional ‘legal highs’The cabiinet has approved the placing of 10 more so-called “legal highs” under the Misuse of Drugs Acts.
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2nd November 2011
Doctor says alcohol implicated in 45 per cent of all suicidesThe founder of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dr John Connolly, has said teenage suicide tends to be a more impulsive act, and that alcohol can lead to an increase in that impulsivity.
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2nd November 2011
Alcohol a major factor in failure of rape casesA major reason why the Director of Public Prosecutions does not prosecute in alleged rape cases is because the complainant is unable to recall the alleged offence or the details of it as a result of intoxication.
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2nd November 2011
Minister of State with responsibility for Drugs Strategy, announces ban on more head shop productsThe Minister of State, with responsibility for Drugs Strategy, Róisín Shortall T.D., announced today (Tuesday, 1 Nov) that the Government has approved an Order declaring a further range of “legal highs” to be controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Acts.
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1st November 2011
Drink nightmare of 10-year-olds20 children a week need medical careChildren as young as 10 are being admitted to hospital every year following drink- and drug-fuelled binges.
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1st November 2011
Cocaine-alcohol double whammy raises heart attack and stroke riskPatrick Plunkett has seen it all. Young people drunk out of their minds, often having taken illegal drugs. Heroin addicts in the grip of overdoses.